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Hosted
by superstar British creators Tula Lotay & Jock
With Special Guest DJ Kieron Gillen and friends.
“BRITISH
INVASION” theme brought to you by Thought Bubble
Party is open to the public and starts at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, at
the Westgate Hotel
$20+ dollar donation at the door requested; Free for
CBLDF Members!
July 02, 2019 – San Diego, CA – Start off San Diego with many of the industry’s best
comic creators at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Comic-Con Welcome Party,
sponsored by comiXology Originals and hosted by superstar creators Tula Lotay
& Jock in a “British Invasion” theme brought about by the help of Thought
Bubble. Additionally, Kieron Gillen will DJ the party along with Tula
Lotay and surprise guests. Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab will be there with a new
British Invasion fragrance for CBLDF supporters! The party is open to the
public and starts at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 18th, at the Westgate Hotel.
Free for CBLDF members, with a $20+ dollar donation at the door requested from
all others, with food and cash bar provided. Get your tickets now: https://cbldfparty2019.eventbrite.com
Long known as the best party during Comic-Con, this
year the British are coming to put a fresh spin on this free speech fundraiser!
With Thought Bubble’s Lotay and Jock leading the charge, CBLDF supporters will
also be able to meet top British creators including Richard Starkings, Andy
Diggle, Joe Glass and more! Stemming the tide of the British Invasion,
creators and industry luminaries working on comiXology Originals line of
exclusive content will be in attendance including; Will Dennis, Kristian
Donaldson, Max Dunbar, Clive Hawken, Shawn Martinbrough, Kel McDonald, Hope
Nicholson, MK Reed, Mark Sable, C. Spike Trotman, Jen Vaughn, Magdalene Visaggio,
and Jim Zub.
CBLDF protects the Free Expression rights of creators
and readers everywhere. This year, they are standing up to a rise in identity
censorship, including attempts to ban books by and about the LGBTQ+ community,
women, and people of color. CBLDF fights censorship by providing legal aid,
resources, and education to help protect the rights guaranteed by the First
Amendment. Your support at the CBLDF SDCC Welcome Party helps fund this
important work!
The fun starts at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, at
the Westgate Hotel, where CBLDF welcomes you to Comic-Con for a fun night of
fabulous creators, astonishing artwork, and outstanding exclusives! RSVP now: https://cbldfparty2019.eventbrite.com
Mingle and Meet Great Creators! In addition to all the creators mentioned
already, every year the you can find some of greatest creators in comics
dropping in at the CBLDF Welcome Party. Don’t miss your chance to mingle with
writers, artists, letterers, colorists, and editors!
Get Amazing Gifts! The first hundred attendees will get an amazing gift
bag that includes limited edition The Stone King posters from comiXology
Originals!
Smell Amazing with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab! Our friends at BPAL will be bringing a brand new
British Invasion exclusive fragrance to support the Fund’s important work!
Get First Dibs on CBLDF Exclusives! CBLDF has an exclusive assortment of great items
promoting intellectual freedom for Comic-Con attendees! We have all-new stickers,
patches, and pins that you can get at the party!
Preview the Incredible Items in CBLDF’s Comic-Con
Auction! Get a first look at the
amazing original art up for grabs at Saturday’s CBLDF Comic-Con Auction,
including art by Walter Simonson, Cathy Guisewite, Stan Sakai, J.O’Barr, Frank
Miller & more!
Come support free speech and experience the most talked about party at Comic-Con during the CBLDF Comic-Con Welcome Party, Thursday, July 18, at the Westgate Hotel (1055 Second Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101), from 8:00 – 11:00 p.m.! This party is FREE for CBLDF Members. Non-members: Suggested $20 donation at the door, please. Reserve your ticket now!
About Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit organization protecting
the freedom to read comics! Our work protects readers, creators, librarians,
retailers, publishers, and educators who face the threat of censorship. We
monitor legislation and challenge laws that would limit the First Amendment. We
create resources that promote understanding of comics and the rights our
community is guaranteed. Every day we publish news and information about
censorship events as they happen. We are partners in the Kids’ Right to Read
Project and Banned Books Week. Our expert legal team is available at
a moment’s notice to respond to First Amendment emergencies. CBLDF is a lean
organization that works hard to protect the rights that our community depends
on. For more information, visit www.cbldf.org
About
comiXology Originals
The
comiXology Originals line of exclusive comic book content is available free to
read for members of Amazon’s subscription services, including Prime Reading,
Kindle Unlimited, and comiXology Unlimited. Debuting in 2007, comiXology
Originals includes a robust line of creator owned series and original graphic
novels, high interest manga from previously out of circulation or never before
completed series, and joint efforts with publishers like Editions
Delcourt.
Prime Reading
offers Amazon Prime members a rotating selection of over a thousand top Kindle
books, magazines, short works, comic books, children’s books, and more – all at
no additional cost. Kindle Unlimited offers over 1 million titles, thousands of
audiobooks, and select current issues of popular magazines for just $9.99 a
month with a 30-day free trial at amazon.com/kindleunlimited.
ComiXology Unlimited now offers over 20,000 comics, graphic novels and manga
for just $5.99 a month with a 30-day free trial atcomixology.com/unlimited.
All titles are also available as individual purchases on Kindle and comiXology.
For more updates on comiXology Originals, check
outhttp://comixologyoriginals.com and
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Super7 is bringing old school Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang to San Diego Comic-Con in their offsite Good Grief Shop. The full press release is below with all the important information. Will you be dropping by? Let u know in the comments!
Super7, makers of collectible toys and apparel, heads to the funny pages with the debut of its new Peanuts collection at SDCC. Known for taking well loved entertainment properties from the past and putting a new, modern spin on them, Super7 has done it again with the beloved comic strip Peanuts and focusing on the more stylized 1950’s characters from the launch of the strip.
Return to the good ol’ days of Peanuts at the exclusive Good Grief, a Super7 x Peanuts Gift Shop, showcased at the Super7 San Diego store. This once in a year/lifetime/Comic-Con exclusive event will take place Friday through Sunday, July 19-21, 2019
11:00am-9:00pm (Fri-Sat)
11:00am-5:00pm (Sun)
Location: 701 Eighth Ave, San Diego, CA 92101.
This collection’s signature piece, the Good Ol’ Charlie Brown 3.75” ReAction Figure showcases Charlie Brown as he appeared in the very first Peanuts newspaper strip from October 2nd, 1950. Standing by Good Ol’ Charlie Brown’s side will be a life-size 16” Snoopy vinyl figure featuring a teasing Snoopy, complete with a removable Charlie Brown Mask and fabric shirt, as he was seen in the Oct 23, 1953 strip. Six additional 3.75” ReAction figures join in on the fun, including Cowboy Charlie Brown, Racoon Hat Snoopy, PJ Sally, Baseball Schroeder, Pirate Linus, and Winter Lucy.
“Growing up, Peanuts was my dad’s favorite, and from the time I could read he gave me his childhood Peanuts books, and the love of it is something we have shared ever since.
To be able to make the Peanuts figures I always wanted to have as a child is a dream come true for both of us.” explains Brian Flynn, Super7 founder, and owner.
Alongside the classic figures are a capsule of perfectly unexpected, limited edition apparel and other accessories like puzzles, enamel pins, glassware, puffy stickers and more reflecting the more downtrodden and melancholy side of Peanuts.
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I did the math. I wanted to be right. But the directors of Avengers: Endgame have said that “I love you 3000” doesn’t mean what we think it means. With the run-time of Spider-Man: Far From Home added in, the entire MCU (at this current moment) is 3000 minutes. So, when Tony Stark said “I love you 3000” to Morgan Stark at the end of Avengers: Endgame, many of us thought it was an ode to all of us who have loved the series from the beginning.
Well, the Russos brothers have now pointed out that they’re not smart enough to worry about planning that far ahead and honestly, fine. I’m still going to carry on believing that Robert Downey Jr. was telling all of us that he loved us for his time as Tony Stark. But, according to an interview with Deco Drive, it’s nothing more than a coincidence.
Sorry, guys — *apparently* the runtime of all the #MCU movies equaling 3,000 minutes (as in, #ILOVEYOU3000) is just a coincidence! 😭🤔
Catch much more of our interview with the @Russo_Brothers tonight on Deco! #Avengers #Endgame #RussoBrothers pic.twitter.com/tNnyHR8tpr
— Deco Drive (@decodrive) June 27, 2019
As you can see, it was just a happy accident. Joe Russo even explained that it’d be too hard for them to try and plan something like that.
“We worked really hard to make sure… we’ve been planning that since Winter Soldier. No, I mean that is absolutely coincidental, we’re not that smart.”
Still, the importance of that line has followed me around ever since I saw the movie. And sure, Robert Downey Jr. said it was something his kids had said to him, but also, it’s the perfect line to exit the Marvel Cinematic Universe with. Saying goodbye to those 3,000 minutes that we have all spent loving Tony Stark and his time as our Iron Man? Iconic.
So whether or not it was their actual point, I’m going to say that the Russo brothers should just run with this and take the most perfect of happy accidents. Own it! I will willingly cry over “I love you 3000” for the rest of my days and that is totally okay by me.
(via Comic Book Movie, image: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
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September 11, 2001 was a day that split our timeline into a before and after, on personal and global levels.
Kids born just after that horrific event when the Twin Towers fell will be of legal age to vote come autumn of 2019. And what a world they have lived and experienced in that trauma and tragedy’s shadow. So much that they will do just about anything to escape from their reality.
Born just three days after the 9/11 attacks, Euphoria’s Rue Bennett (Zendaya) has grown up in an increasingly chaotic world that she didn’t have the capacity to process. Diagnosed with everything from bipolar and anxiety disorder, to ADHD, and even OCD, Rue has had a personal home pharmacy since she was eight years old. “I don’t remember much between the ages of 8 to 12. Just that the world moved fast and my brain moved slow.” But it’s after the cancer diagnosis and subsequent death of her beloved dad as a young teen that she properly gets into recreational drug use. Now, freshly sober after a virtual lifetime of drug use and abuse as well as a near-fatal overdose, Rue returns home after a summer of rehab just before her junior year of high school. With absolutely no intention of staying clean.
Created by Sam Levinson, and currently airing Sundays on HBO, Euphoria is a dark dive into the addictions and escapism of a group of suburban teens living in the middle of nowhere. Drugs are far from the only tool they are using to not think about the toxic state of the world. Social media and sex — and where the two intersect — are another popular escape method for Rue’s peers. Jules (Hunter Schafer) is new to the town and has taken to a hook-up app to explore her burgeoning sexuality as a young trans woman. One of many things that makes Schafer’s Jules so beautiful is that her storyline isn’t one of transition — like so many trans narratives get pigeonholed. She knows exactly who she is. What she doesn’t know is what she likes yet. Going on this journey with her is amazing. But also terrifying. Schafer is hands-down the breakout star of Euphoria.
Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) has a tender and trusting heart that gets bashed often after her nudes and sex tapes get constantly leaked by guys she thought she could trust. “Nudes are the language of love now,” Rue narrates as she shames the men who shame women for getting naked for them. When Cassie gets non-consensually choked during her first hook-up with crush Chris McKay (Algee Smith), Rue’s narration points out the violent and misogynistic porn that tops porn websites. “I’m not trying to be, like, sex-negative. But…” she says, referencing another new phenomenon where we can’t even critically engage with dangerous forms and presentations of pornography that lead to non-consensual sex acts like what Cassie just went through. Too many young girls and women report this and similar behavior. And it’s not cool in Euphoria. It’s not cool in real life.
Nate (Jacob Elordi) is a closeted football star obsessed with working out and performing masculinity after finding his father Cal’s (Eric Dane) homemade stash of gay porn when he was eight or nine years old. Nate’s dad finds out that he saw the videos, and essentially tells his boy that he always suspected he was gay. That Nate will have to work his whole life to keep it a secret unless he wants to fail. In a moment of instant internalized homophobia, Nate becomes a poster boy for toxic masculinity and white male violence. The reverse Carrie locker room scene with Nate trying not to look at his teammates’ genitals is a statement just by itself. Euphoria isn’t afraid to show anything on-screen, including lots and lots and lots of penises.
These are just a few snapshots of the three-dimensional characters biking and driving around Euphoria’s world as they try to navigate addiction, politics, reality, sexuality, and identity as Rue narrates her and her classmates’ (and their parents) growing web of connections. Some good. Some bad. Some against the law.
Zendaya has taken an entire Neo leap away from her old Disney persona to play a haunted and damaged young woman whose addiction feels like the only meaning in her life. Her performance is raw and vulnerable, and her eyes so expressive I often forget that she’s the one-named superstar who once was a poster girl for Disneyfied wholesomeness. We are certainly not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Not with this role. Not with the level of intensity she channels. It’s also amazing to see her multiracial family at the center of a story, without it being a big deal. It just is.
But the positives of representation and inclusion aside, I can’t help but be troubled by what I’ve seen on screen in these first two episodes of Euphoria. All of the actors are in their 20s, but since they are playing teenagers (and all look their screen ages) it’s really uncomfortable and honestly creepy to watch such graphic sex acts playing out among these young kids in sometimes harsh detail on screen. Is this because I’m significantly older than both the characters and the actors playing them? Absolutely. It’s also because I’m thinking about grown men who will be watching a teen drama not at all for its social commentary and message of inclusivity and connection, but rather for the titillation and possible sexual gratification it provides with so much visible young flesh. *Shudder*
Yes, the show is making some strides to call out pedophile and rape culture and the overt hypersexualization and sexual objectification of young women. At the same time, it’s also reinforcing both of these dangerous and disgusting cultures through on-screen choices. Do we really need another high-school teen sex and drugs show? Riverdale, Sabrina, etc aren’t enough? Now we need these shows on prestige cable where nudity and choreographed sex scenes can be exploited further? I’m gonna say no. This aspect of the show upends much of the good work it is doing.
To problematize it even further, Drake is an executive producer of Euphoria and he has sexual assault allegations under his belt, pun terribly intended. There is even video footage of him groping a 17-year-old girl’s breasts on stage, even after asking her how old she is and she confirming she’s underage. It’s really inappropriate that someone accused of an alleged sexual assault and publicly fondling a minor’s breasts with impunity would be involved in a show that has teenage sex as one major aspect and in particular way, too many examples of statutory rape. No matter how excellent the rest of Euphoria’s first season might be, I will not be able to overlook the shadow Drake casts over it.
I’m faced with another moment of pop-culture quantum physics. The treatment of teenage sex on screen, in particular, is extremely troubling and disturbing. At the same time, as huge a problem as this is, I also can’t help but wish a show like Euphoria had existed when I was in high school myself. A narrative like Euphoria that puts it all out there with such rawness, vulnerability, and honesty on so many levels really would have made a difference to how I saw myself and my peers. And with social media in the mix now, I think a lot of people are going to see their own reflections in this show. Euphoria is real in a way that other teen dramas are not.
Even for its issues, I do believe Euphoria is a show that will help people, both young and older. How naturally and compassionately it is tackling some of the hardest issues of the current day and age is remarkable and poignant, especially as it concerns addiction and social media. The production value is also visually stunning as the story unfolds. I have my fingers crossed these aspects will rise above the more problematic ones by Euphoria’s end.
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